George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

I'm not aware that there has been an approach, but I am aware of this: there has been an approach by Adani to an Australian government agency—that is, the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility, the NAIF—which is now being blocked by the Annastacia Palaszczuk. Under the terms of NAIF funding, it requires the support of the state government, and, in the first week of the Queensland election campaign, what did Annastacia Palaszczuk do? She pulled the rug out from under Adani's application for the northern Australia infrastructure funding and, in doing so, she stabbed in the back the 10,000 Central Queenslanders and North Queenslanders who stood to get a full-time job out of that project.